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Reducing Racial Bias Among Health Care Providers: Lessons from Social-Cognitive Psychology
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The paper sets forth a set of evidence-based recommendations for interventions to combat unintentional bias among health care providers, drawing upon theory and research in social cognitive psychology. Our primary aim is to provide a framework that outlines strategies and skills, which can be taught to medical trainees and practicing physicians, to prevent unconscious racial attitudes and stereotypes from negatively influencing the course and outcomes of clinical encounters. These strategies and skills are designed to: 1) enhance internal motivation to reduce bias, while avoiding external pressure; 2) increase understanding about the psychological basis of bias; 3) enhance providers' confidence in their ability to successfully interact with socially dissimilar patients; 4) enhance emotional regulation skills; and 5) improve the ability to build partnerships with patients. We emphasize the need for programs to provide a nonthreatening environment in which to practice new skills and the need to avoid making providers ashamed of having racial, ethnic, or cultural stereotypes. These recommendations are also intended to provide a springboard for research on interventions to reduce unintentional racial bias in health care.
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This paper proposes a social-cognitive framework of five strategies to help health care providers prevent unconscious racial stereotypes from negatively affecting clinical encounters. It argues that interventions should build internal motivation, understanding, confidence, emotional regulation, empathy/perspective taking, and partnership building, while cautioning that these recommendations have not yet been tested in health care.
Key findings
- The paper recommends five intervention targets: (1) enhance internal motivation to reduce bias while avoiding external pressure; (2) increase understanding of the psychological basis of bias; (3) enhance providers’ confidence in interacting with socially dissimilar patients; (4) enhance emotional regulation skills; and (5) improve the ability to build partnerships with patients.
- It warns that stereotype suppression can produce a “rebound effect,” increased social distancing, and depletion of cognitive resources; it recommends recognizing stereotypes and using counter-strategies rather than trying to actively suppress them.
- It highlights individuation, positive emotion, perspective taking/affective empathy, and common ingroup/partnership building as promising mechanisms from social-cognitive research; it notes that empathy has been shown to decline over medical training and physicians’ careers, suggesting interventions may need repetition.
- It states that the recommendations are based on empirical work mostly not conducted in health care providers and settings, and should undergo rigorous evaluation before widespread adoption.
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- Design: conceptual/recommendation paper, not an empirical study; it sets forth evidence-based recommendations drawing on theory and research in social cognitive psychology.
- Data or sample: Not stated in the paper; no primary data, sample, or systematic review is described.
- Main analysis: narrative synthesis of theory and prior research, organized around a conceptual model (Figure 1) emphasizing motivation, information, skills, and emotion in interracial interaction.
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- Paper-stated: most supporting empirical work was not conducted in health care providers and settings; future interventions need rigorous evaluation, including attention to unintended consequences.
- Paper-stated: changing habits may temporarily increase cognitive burden, strategies take time and practice to become automatic, and the recommendations are not comprehensive or necessarily stand-alone programs.
- Evident from the text: there are no primary data or formal systematic review, and the proposed strategies remain untested in health care, so their effectiveness and potential harms are unknown.
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“(3) providers interact less effectively with minority than with white patients.32–37”
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- Not checked yetcites [34] Hooper EM, Comstock LM, Goodwin JM, Goodwin JS. Patient characteristics that influence physician behavior. Med Care. 1982;20(6):630–8 source
- Not checked yetcites [35] Johnson RL, Roter D, Powe NR, Cooper LA. Patient race/ethnicity and quality of patient–physician communication during medical visits. Am J Public Health. 2004;94(12):2084–90. source
- Not checked yetcites [36] Cooper LA, Beach MC, Johnson RL, Inui TS. Delving below the surface. Understanding how race and ethnicity influence relationships in health care. J Gen Intern Med. 2006;21(suppl 1):S21–7. source
- Not checked yetcites [37] Cooper LA, Roter D. Patient–provider communication: the effect of race and ethnicity on process and outcomes of healthcare. In: Smedley BD, Stith AY, Nelson AR, eds. Unequal treatment: confronting racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press; 2003:552–93.
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“These programs, however, typically focus on improving providers’ cross-cultural communication skills and, as such, are likely to have only limited effects on the unconscious cognitive processes that result in stereotype activation and application.”
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“(2) application of such stereotypes frequently occurs outside conscious awareness26–31”
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- Not checked yetcites [26] Banaji M, Greenwald AG. Implicit stereotyping and prejudice. In: Zanna MP, Olson JM, eds. The Psychology of Prejudice, The Ontario Symposium, vol. 7: 55–76.
- Not checked yetcites [27] Devine PG, Monteith MJ. Automaticity and control in stereotyping. In: Chaiken S, Trope Y, eds. Dual-process Theories in Social Psychology. New York: Guilford Press; 1999:339–60
- Not checked yetcites [28] Dovidio JF, Gaertner SL. On the nature of contemporary prejudice: The causes, consequences, and challenges of aversive racism. In: Eberhardt JL, Fiske, ST eds. Racism: The problem and the Response. Newbury Park, CA: Sage; 1998.
- Not checked yetcites [29] Dovidio JF, Kawakami K, Gaertner SL. Implicit and explicit prejudice and interracial interaction. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2002;82(1):62–8. source
- Not checked yetcites [30] Fazio RH, Jackson JR, Dunton BC, Williams CJ. Variability in automatic activation as an unobtrusive measure of racial attitudes: a bona fide pipeline? J Pers Soc Psychol. 1995;69(6):1013–27. source
- Not checked yetcites [31] Wilson TD, Lindsey S, Schooler TY. A model of dual attitudes. Psychol Rev. 2000;107(1):101–26. source
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“Whites spontaneously associate different health conditions with Whites and Blacks. 41”
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- Not checked yetcites [41] Hunt JS, Rothmann TL, Rothman AJ, Iyer SN, McGorty EK. Implicit and explicit associations between health problems and social groups. Psychol Health. In press.
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“There is significant evidence that (1) health care providers hold stereotypes—based on patient race, class, sex, and other characteristics4–17—that influence their interpretation of behaviors and symptoms, and their clinical decisions17–25”
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- Not checked yetcites [4] van Ryn M, Burke J. The effect of patient race and socio-economic status on physicians’ perceptions of patients. Soc Sci Med. 2000;50(6):813–28. source
- Not checked yetcites [5] van Ryn M. Research on the provider contribution to race/ethnicity disparities in medical care. Med Care. 2002;40(suppl):I 140–51.
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- Not checked yetcites [10] Lewis G, Croft-Jeffreys C, David A. Are British psychiatrists racist? Br J Psychiatry. 1990;157:410–15. source
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“The most successful way to alleviate intergroup anxiety and increase provider confidence is through direct “contact” with members of other groups.71,72”
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“may interpret signs of anxiety displayed by White providers as reflecting negative attitudes.69”
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [69] Dovidio JF, Gaertner SE, Kawakami K, Hodson G. Why can’t we just get along? Interpersonal biases and interracial distrust. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. 2002;8(2):88–102. source
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“Stereotype suppression also can result in increased social distancing, thus potentially undermining the interpersonal quality of the encounter.61”
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [61] Macrae C, Bodenhausen GV, Milne AB, Jetten J. Out of mind but back in sight: stereotypes on the rebound. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1994;67(5):808–17. source
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“Promoting awareness of the social and historical context of race, the evidence documenting racial disparities in the quality of health care,2 and the evidence that provider bias may contribute to those disparities15 may also help in nurturing internal motivation to reduce bias, based on a sense of fairness.”
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- Not checked yetcites [2] Smedley BD, Stith AY, Nelson AR, eds. Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press; 2002.
- Not checked yetcites [15] Schulman KA, Berlin JA, Harless W, et al. The effect of race and sex on physicians’ recommendations for cardiac catheterization. N Engl J Med. 1999;340(8):618–26. source
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“Even automatically activated prejudice and stereotypes can be inhibited when people are perceived more in terms of their particular qualities than primarily as members of social categories.50”
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [50] Blair IV. The malleability of automatic stereotypes and prejudice. Pers Soc Psychol Rev. 2002;6:242–61. source
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“Whites tend to have unconscious stereotypes of Whites as intelligent, successful, and educated, and of Blacks as aggressive, impulsive, and lazy,40”
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [40] Wittenbrink B, Judd CM, Park B. Evidence for racial prejudice at the implicit level and its relationship with questionnaire measures. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1997;72(2):262–74. source
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“overt expressions of prejudice and negative racial stereotypes have declined substantially over time, as norms condemning bias and endorsing racial equality have become stronger and more widespread across the population.38,39”
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- Not checked yetcites [38] Schuman H, Steeh C, Bobo L, Krysan M. Racial attitudes in America: Trends and interpretations, 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 1997.
- Not checked yetcites [39] Bobo L. Racial attitudes and relations at the close of the twentieth century. In: Smelser NJ, Wilson WJ, Mitchell F, eds. Racial trends and their consequences. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2001:264–301.
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“even consciously egalitarian people may hold negative ethnic and racial stereotypes and attitudes,26–31 of which they may not be fully conscious.”
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [26] Banaji M, Greenwald AG. Implicit stereotyping and prejudice. In: Zanna MP, Olson JM, eds. The Psychology of Prejudice, The Ontario Symposium, vol. 7: 55–76.
- Not checked yetcites [27] Devine PG, Monteith MJ. Automaticity and control in stereotyping. In: Chaiken S, Trope Y, eds. Dual-process Theories in Social Psychology. New York: Guilford Press; 1999:339–60
- Not checked yetcites [28] Dovidio JF, Gaertner SL. On the nature of contemporary prejudice: The causes, consequences, and challenges of aversive racism. In: Eberhardt JL, Fiske, ST eds. Racism: The problem and the Response. Newbury Park, CA: Sage; 1998.
- Not checked yetcites [29] Dovidio JF, Kawakami K, Gaertner SL. Implicit and explicit prejudice and interracial interaction. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2002;82(1):62–8. source
- Not checked yetcites [30] Fazio RH, Jackson JR, Dunton BC, Williams CJ. Variability in automatic activation as an unobtrusive measure of racial attitudes: a bona fide pipeline? J Pers Soc Psychol. 1995;69(6):1013–27. source
- Not checked yetcites [31] Wilson TD, Lindsey S, Schooler TY. A model of dual attitudes. Psychol Rev. 2000;107(1):101–26. source
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“as unconscious biases are “habits of mind”,31,45 learned over time through repeated personal experiences and cultural socialization, they are highly resistant to change.46”
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- Not checked yetcites [31] Wilson TD, Lindsey S, Schooler TY. A model of dual attitudes. Psychol Rev. 2000;107(1):101–26. source
- Not checked yetcites [45] Devine PG, Monteith MJ. The role of discrepancy-associated affect in prejudice reduction. In: Mackie DM, Hamilton DL, eds. Affect, Cognition and Stereotyping: Interactive Processes In Intergroup Perception. Orlando, FL: Academic Press; 1993:317–44. source
- Not checked yetcites [46] Kawakami K, Dovidio JF, Moll J, Hermsen S, Russin A. Just say no (to stereotyping): effects of training in the negation of stereotypic associations on stereotype activation. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2000;78(5):871–88. source
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“People tend to have less empathy for others perceived as dissimilar,77 including members of other social categories,67 which typically result in low rapport.29,35,37,69”
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- Not checked yetcites [77] Krebs D. Empathy and altruism. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1975;32:1134–46. source
- Not checked yetcites [67] Plant E, Devine PG. The antecedents and implications of interracial anxiety. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2003;29(6):790–801. source
- Not checked yetcites [29] Dovidio JF, Kawakami K, Gaertner SL. Implicit and explicit prejudice and interracial interaction. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2002;82(1):62–8. source
- Not checked yetcites [35] Johnson RL, Roter D, Powe NR, Cooper LA. Patient race/ethnicity and quality of patient–physician communication during medical visits. Am J Public Health. 2004;94(12):2084–90. source
- Not checked yetcites [37] Cooper LA, Roter D. Patient–provider communication: the effect of race and ethnicity on process and outcomes of healthcare. In: Smedley BD, Stith AY, Nelson AR, eds. Unequal treatment: confronting racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press; 2003:552–93.
- Not checked yetcites [69] Dovidio JF, Gaertner SE, Kawakami K, Hodson G. Why can’t we just get along? Interpersonal biases and interracial distrust. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. 2002;8(2):88–102. source
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“Experiments testing the impact of instructions to avoid stereotyping have shown very short-term benefit with a “rebound effect,” in which the stereotype later recurred at a higher rate than among the control groups who were not instructed to suppress.61–64”
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- Not checked yetcites [61] Macrae C, Bodenhausen GV, Milne AB, Jetten J. Out of mind but back in sight: stereotypes on the rebound. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1994;67(5):808–17. source
- Not checked yetcites [62] Macrae CN, Bodenhausen GV, Milne AB. Saying no to unwanted thoughts: self-focus and the regulation of mental life. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1998;74(3):578–89. source
- Not checked yetcites [63] Wenzlaff RMW, Daniel M. Thought suppression. Annu Rev Psychol. 2000;51:59–91. source
- Not checked yetcites [64] Wyer NA, Sherman JW, Stroessner SJ. The roles of motivation and ability in controlling the consequences of stereotype suppression. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2000;26(1):13–25. source
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“Additionally, when time and circumstances allow, the use of stress-reducing techniques to enhance emotional well-being before patient encounters may help reduce racial bias.”
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“As we have discussed earlier, much of contemporary racism occurs unintentionally, fueled by unconscious prejudice and stereotypes.”
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“Enhancing provider empathy is a particularly promising strategy for increasing the effectiveness of patient–provider interactions generally, and especially for interracial interactions.”
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“Psychological research has shown that Whites often feel anxious when interacting with Blacks, because of a lack of positive experiences with interracial encounters, leading them to avoid such interactions.67”
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- Not checked yetcites [67] Plant E, Devine PG. The antecedents and implications of interracial anxiety. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2003;29(6):790–801. source
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“For instance, in several studies, White subjects in whom positive emotions were induced more accurately recognized Black faces, suggesting that positive emotional states can lead to lower levels of racial categorization.74”
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- Not checked yetcites [74] Johnson KJF, Barbara L. “We All Look the Same to Me”: positive emotions eliminate the own-race bias in face recognition. Psychol Sci. 2005;16:875–81. source
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“More generally, positive emotional states have been shown to broaden the scope of attention and the tendency to attend to new information,76 a mental state that is consistent with greater levels of individuation and lower levels of categorization.”
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“Recent research suggests that providers who experience higher levels of positive emotion during clinical encounters may be less likely to categorize patients in terms of their racial, ethnic, or cultural group and more likely to view patients in terms of their individual attributes (i.e., individuation).”
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“In the context of the clinical encounter, this may translate into White providers’ engaging in avoidance behaviors and spending less time with non-White patients, leading to poorer patient–provider relationships.”
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“Techniques that lead people to recognize their unconscious biases include exercises where they are prompted to compare what they would do and what they should do in a variety of intergroup circumstances,45 and recently developed procedures (such as the Implicit Association Test52,53) that can reveal unconscious prejudice and stereotypes.”
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- Not checked yetcites [45] Devine PG, Monteith MJ. The role of discrepancy-associated affect in prejudice reduction. In: Mackie DM, Hamilton DL, eds. Affect, Cognition and Stereotyping: Interactive Processes In Intergroup Perception. Orlando, FL: Academic Press; 1993:317–44. source
- Not checked yetcites [52] Greenwald AG, McGhee DE, Schwartz JLK. Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: the implicit association test. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1998;74(6):1464–80. source
- Not checked yetcites [53] Nosek BA. Moderators of the relationship between implicit and explicit evaluation. J Exp Psychol Gen. 2005;134:565–84. source
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“In addition, suppressing stereotypes requires effort,65 which can deplete cognitive resources and adversely affect the ability to solve problems and make correct decisions.66”
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- Not checked yetcites [65] Shelton JN, Richeson JA, Salvatore J, Trawalter S. Ironic effects of racial bias during interracial interactions. Psychol Sci. 2005;16:397–402. source
- Not checked yetcites [66] Richeson JA, Shelton JN. When prejudice does not pay: effects of interracial contact on executive function. Psychol Sci. 2003 14:287–90. source
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“Positive emotion has also been shown to lead to the use of more inclusive social categories, so that people are more likely to view themselves as being part of a larger group,28,75 which can facilitate empathy and increase the capacity to see others as members of a common “ingroup,” as opposed to “outgroup.”43”
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- Not checked yetcites [28] Dovidio JF, Gaertner SL. On the nature of contemporary prejudice: The causes, consequences, and challenges of aversive racism. In: Eberhardt JL, Fiske, ST eds. Racism: The problem and the Response. Newbury Park, CA: Sage; 1998.
- Not checked yetcites [75] Dovidio JF, Gaertner SL, Isen AM, Lowrance R. Group representations and intergroup bias: positive affect, similarity, and group size. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 1995;21(8):856–65. source
- Not checked yetcites [43] Dovidio JF, Gaertner SL. Aversive racism. In: Zanna MP, ed. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. Vol 36. San Diego, CA: Academic Press; 2004:1–51.
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“In general, people retain information in a more detailed fashion, remember more positive information, and are more forgiving of behaviors for ingroup compared to outgroup members.102–104”
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“Unfortunately, empathy has been shown to decline over the course of medical training91–94 and the course of physicians’ medical careers,85 suggesting that interventions to increase empathy might need to be repeated over time to be effective.”
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“Partnership-building between provider and patient would not only be expected to produce a more positive and responsive orientation of the provider to the patient, but also a more open and cooperative orientation of the patient to the provider.”
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“Second, it is important to recognize that the initial stages of changing old habits and developing new skills are likely to temporarily result in greater cognitive burden for providers during clinical encounters.”
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“In practice, perspective taking and affective empathy are closely related: perspective taking arouses affective empathy, and affective empathy facilitates adopting the other’s perspective.79”
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“Controlled laboratory studies instructing subjects to adopt a perspective associated with another person and his or her situation have been shown to reduce bias toward a range of stigmatized groups,81 including Blacks,82,83 and to inhibit the activation of unconscious stereotypes and prejudices.84”
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“Both ultimately produce more positive orientations toward the other person and a greater interest in the other’s welfare.86”
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There has been relatively little discussion to date of how to mitigate the negative impact of unconscious racial stereotyping among health care providers.
“In fact, there has been relatively little discussion to date of how to mitigate the negative impact of unconscious racial stereotyping among health care providers, despite the acknowledged need to do so.32–35”
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The proposed strategies have not yet been tested in the realm of health care.
“It is important to note that these proposed strategies have not yet been tested in the realm of health care and should undergo rigorous evaluation before widespread adoption.”
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The cognitive strategy of categorization that gives rise to stereotyping and racial prejudice is a normal aspect of human cognition.
“current understanding posits that the cognitive strategy of categorization that gives rise to stereotyping and racial prejudice is a normal aspect of human cognition.”
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Stress and negative emotions may increase stereotyping.
“simply being aware that stress and negative emotions may increase stereotyping could make providers more vigilant about when their interactions with patients are likely to be biased.”
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In the United States, race, ethnicity, and sex represent automatically activated categories that form the basis for ingroup–outgroup differentiation.
“In the United States, race, ethnicity, and sex represent automatically activated categories that form the basis for ingroup–outgroup differentiation.”
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Most of the empirical work underlying the recommendations has not been conducted in health care providers and settings.
“First, although our recommendations are based on empirical work, most of that work has not been conducted in health care providers and settings.”
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The recommended social-cognitive strategies can prevent unconscious racial attitudes and stereotypes from negatively influencing the course and outcomes of clinical encounters.
“our recommended strategies are not intended to change these associations directly,47 but rather to give providers strategies and skills to prevent unconscious attitudes and stereotypes from influencing the course and outcomes of clinical encounters in negative ways.”
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Efforts such as enhancing empathy and partnership building are relevant to reducing provider bias.
“Efforts such as enhancing empathy and partnership building are relevant not only to reducing provider bias but to improving patient–provider relationships in general.”
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Efforts such as enhancing empathy and partnership building are relevant to improving patient–provider relationships in general.
“Efforts such as enhancing empathy and partnership building are relevant not only to reducing provider bias but to improving patient–provider relationships in general.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Burgess, D., van Ryn, M., Dovidio, J., & Saha, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Oregon Health & Science University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Burgess, Diana
- Venue
- Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Published
- 2007-03-03
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 882-887
- ISSN
- 0884-8734 (ISSN-L)
- 1525-1497
- PMC
- PMC2219858
- OpenAlex
- W2011893684
- Semantic Scholar
- af83f6d663f2f8ef53290a246c6ad777273432ed
- Cited by
- 495
- References
- 130
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 49 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 51 · 2021: 44 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 35 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 25 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 22 · 2014: 24 · 2013: 24 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 40.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of General Internal Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- University Libraries (University of Maryland) (submittedVersion)
- Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (University of Maryland College Park)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Cultural Competency in Health Care
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Keywords
- racial bias, healthcare workers, social cognitive psychology, bias reduction interventions, medical trainees, physician-patient interaction, emotion regulation, patient partnership, intrinsic motivation
- MeSH terms
- Attitude of Health Personnel, Delivery of Health Care, Health Personnel, Humans, Physician-Patient Relations, Prejudice, Race Relations, Social Perception, Stereotyping
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